They said this was coming at Gen Con. This will be released to have us determine the future of the Forgotten Realms. It technically isn’t a DnD Next product because it’ll be released before the playtesting phase is over.
I looked at the contents, and holy cow. The book that is simply description of the city is twice as big as the adventure (which is fairly big in its own right). Plus the screen is geared toward the adventure, which should be interesting. I bet it works as a nice example of the kind of notes a DM should keep handy during games.

No, this is the first of two (or three?) Sundering adventures. WotC has you play it and send in feedback of what happened so they can shape the world around what the players did.
If it is just a mini campaign setting, then why is there a 32 page adventure in it? Sure, the setting material is twice as big, but that’s just so people can play the adventure better.

Remember that this adventure was annonced at Gen Con. It’s the first part of a two parter adventure set in the realms where the impact of your adventures can have an impact on what will happens to the realms when you send the results to wotc. I suppose they’ll collect all results and apply a majority rules to it… If Baldur’s gate is destroyed in the majority of the results they get, that’s what will happen to it (kinda doubtful but hey, that’s what they said a the time…)

And so it will be playable in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or D&D Next editions? Be interesting if that is true and even more interesting if they keep tabs of how many of each edition is played and what the results are across the editions.

There are some interesting deadlines in this article however I don’t know if I see all of them heart to heart. There may be some validity however I’ll take maintain opinion till I look into it further. Good article , thanks and we want more! Added to FeedBurner as properly

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